How to refresh parent page on closing a popup ?

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In this article, we are given the task to refresh the parent page by closing a popup.

Approach: The Steps to achieve this are as follows:

Create a page.
Create a popup.
Popup should contain a button that when clicked refreshes the parent page.
Attach an event listener to that button and listen for the click event on that button.
Clicking on that button triggers a function that reloads the parent page.

Reloading is achieved by JavaScript using the below statement

The location.reload() method in HTML DOM is used to reload a current page document, this method refreshes the current document.

Syntax:

window.location.reload();

Note: Use internal CSS to make the page look beautiful. And all CSS code is within <style> tag.

Example: This example uses the above-explained approach.

html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,
                initial-scale=1.0">
    <title> Refresh Example </title>
</head>
 
<body>
    <!-- Create a simple web page -->
    <div>
        <h1>Refresh Example </h1>
 
        <button class="btn" id="popup-btn">
            Show popup
        </button>
    </div>
 
    <!-- Create a simple popup which is hidden using CSS -->
    <div id="wrapper">
        <div id="popup">
            <div>
                <h2>POPUP</h2>
                <button class="btn" id="close-btn">
                    Close
                </button>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
</body>
</html>

CSS

/* Css Styling */
h1 {
    font-size: 45px;
    font-family: 'Courier New',
        Courier,
        monospace;
    text-align: center;
}
 
.btn {
    padding: 10px 20px;
    font-size: 24px;
    background-color: #0f9d58;
    border: none;
    color: white;
    border-radius: 10px;
    outline: none;
    box-shadow: 0px 3px 2px 1px rgb(100, 100, 100);
    cursor: pointer;
}
 
#popup-btn {
    margin-left: 45%;
}
 
#wrapper {
    position: absolute;
    left: 0;
    top: 0;
    width: 100vw;
    height: 100vh;
    background-color: rgba(100, 100, 100, 0.7);
    display: flex;
    justify-content: center;
    align-items: center;
    visibility: hidden;
}
 
#popup {
    width: 50%;
    height: 50%;
    background-color: white;
    display: flex;
    justify-content: center;
    align-items: center;
    border-radius: 10px;
}
 
h2 {
    font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;
    font-weight: bold;
    font-size: 40px;
}

Javascript

// Attach event listener to open popup
document.getElementById(
    'popup-btn').addEventListener('click', (e) => {
        document.getElementById(
            'wrapper').style.visibility = "visible";
    })
 
// Attach event listener to first close popup and then refresh page
document.getElementById(
    'close-btn').addEventListener('click', (e) => {
        document.getElementById(
            'wrapper').style.visibility = "hidden";
        window.location.reload();
    });